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The Song of the Midnight Rider
A love letter to found family and the American road, Lex E. Santí’s The Song of the Midnight Rider is fast, violent, and full of heart.
— Kelli Jo Ford, author of Crooked Hallelujah
Lex Santí has a poet’s heart, his work is a wonder.
— Cara Hoffman, author of Running and So Much Pretty
In the shadowlands of the American South, a man drives an untraceable car—black-on-black, near silent, built for vanishing. Behind the a reluctant courier forced into servitude, paying off a debt to men who deal in violence and live by no law but their own. To survive, he must keep moving. To be free, he must disappear entirely.
But as the miles add up, so do the ghosts. Each delivery drags him deeper into a world of myth, memory, and meaning—where found family, radical love, and defiant hope become his only compass.
The Song of the Midnight Rider is a gritty, heart-thrumming novel about the cost of freedom and the lengths we’ll go to for redemption. With echoes of No Country for Old Men, Jesus’ Son, and the folklore of the open road, Santí’s debut pulses with lyricism, velocity, and grace.
— Kelli Jo Ford, author of Crooked Hallelujah
Lex Santí has a poet’s heart, his work is a wonder.
— Cara Hoffman, author of Running and So Much Pretty
In the shadowlands of the American South, a man drives an untraceable car—black-on-black, near silent, built for vanishing. Behind the a reluctant courier forced into servitude, paying off a debt to men who deal in violence and live by no law but their own. To survive, he must keep moving. To be free, he must disappear entirely.
But as the miles add up, so do the ghosts. Each delivery drags him deeper into a world of myth, memory, and meaning—where found family, radical love, and defiant hope become his only compass.
The Song of the Midnight Rider is a gritty, heart-thrumming novel about the cost of freedom and the lengths we’ll go to for redemption. With echoes of No Country for Old Men, Jesus’ Son, and the folklore of the open road, Santí’s debut pulses with lyricism, velocity, and grace.
379 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 20, 2025
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